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Full title - Prices and particulars of blue and purple slates, manufactured at the quarry of the Coedmadoc Slate Company, Limited.

Prices and particulars of slates of the Coedmadoc Slate Quarry Company Limited, Dyffryn Nantlle, dated 1907. The prices given are for ‘blue’ and ‘purple’ slates in various sizes (ranging from 30’’ x 16’’ to 8’’ x 8’’), and of various quality (‘best’, ‘second best’, and ‘second’quality slates). The price list is printed on cream paper. The donor’s family were timber merchants in Taunton, Somerset. They supplied timber and slate to local builders and merchants, and as a result acquired a collection of slate price lists.